VAWnet News Blog
by Patty Branco, Senior Technical Assistance & Resource Specialist for the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
The article reports, “UNICEF, UN-HABITAT and UN Women launch ‘Safe and Friendly Cities for All,’ a five-year programme that aims at making women and children feel safer in their local neighbourhoods, while improving their quality of life.
The article reports, “…Street harassment is no different than workplace harassment in its purpose and its effect. It is meant to put victims in their place, to remind them that they are objects and that their safety is a privilege, not a right. As a result, people change jobs, leave apartments or whole cities and suffer long-term stress and anxiety orders.”
The article reports, “Experts suggest the United States’ ranking near the bottom of 33 developed countries for life expectancy at birth — 27th — may be due to domestic violence.
